mm, x86: Saving vmcore with non-lazy freeing of vmas
During the reading of /proc/vmcore the kernel is doing ioremap()/iounmap() repeatedly. And the buildup of un-flushed vm_area_struct's is causing a great deal of overhead. (rb_next() is chewing up most of that time). This solution is to provide function set_iounmap_nonlazy(). It causes a subsequent call to iounmap() to immediately purge the vma area (with try_purge_vmap_area_lazy()). With this patch we have seen the time for writing a 250MB compressed dump drop from 71 seconds to 44 seconds. Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <E1OwHZ4-0005WK-Tw@eag09.americas.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ ssize_t copy_oldmem_page(unsigned long pfn, char *buf,
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} else
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memcpy(buf, vaddr + offset, csize);
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set_iounmap_nonlazy();
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iounmap(vaddr);
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return csize;
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}
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